Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Examples

In contrast with this let us take the Cape of Good Hope -- the most flowery region probably that exists upon the globe, -- where the country is a complete flower-garden of heaths, pelargoniums, mesembryanthemus, exquisite iridaceous and other bulbs, and numerous flowering shrubs and trees; yet the Cape butterflies are hardly equal, either in number or variety, to those of any country in South Europe, and are utterly insignificant when compared with those of the comparatively flowerless forest-depths of the